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Areca

Areca Palm

14

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1940

First collected

1991

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Areca, most mentions first.

  1. 2015

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2015: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  2. 2014

    Biological survey on a 10-acre parcel and adjacent areas, proposed land acquisition, Kahuluui, Maui, Hawaii

    Preston, D. & Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2008

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2007

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2007

  5. 2007

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2007: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

5 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1940s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1940 by Clemens, M.S. (New Guinea). The Museum last collected it in 1991; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as June 4, 2026.

From the collection

Areca, 109552Areca, 452586Areca, 652523Areca, 652521Areca, 79376Areca, 452585Areca, 452584Areca, 452587

Alive today

23 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.